PSS (patterned sapphire substrate) maker Rigidtech Microelectronics is setting up a factory in eastern China with initial monthly capacity of 100,000 PSS and volume production there will begin around the end of 2015, according to the ...
The 11th annual China (Shenzhen) International Culture Industries Fair (ICIF) will be held in Shenzhen of South China's Guangdong province during May 14-18, 2015. The cultural fair this year will especially set up the Silk Road Hall ...
Tags: Cultural Industries Fair, Silk Road Hall, One Belt, One Road
The impact of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement on China and non-TPP major Asian manufacturers South Korea and Taiwan will be minimal. However, other non-TPP Asian nations (particularly textile manufacturers) and small domestic ...
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Some first-tier China-based PV module firms have asked Taiwan solar cell makers to supply products on credit from, and the suppliers are considering whether to accept the requests, according to industry sources. These China-based PV ...
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After acquiring a stake in a U.S. medical device firm last year, the world’s biggest electronics manufacturer is in now talks with another medtech company. Brian Buntz Foxconn is now making components for the ViSi Mobile device ...
Tags: Medtech Market, iPhone Assembler
China's fixed asset investment rose 13.5 percent from a year earlier to 7.75 trillion yuan (1.26 trillion U.S. dollars) in the first quarter of 2015, the National Bureau of Statistics said on Wednesday. The pace of increase slowed further ...
GaN Systems Inc of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, a fabless producer of gallium nitride (GaN)-based power switching transistors based on its proprietary Island Technology for power conversion and control applications, has signed an agreement with ...
Solar cell maker Solartech Energy will temporarily suspend one of its 11 production lines in Taiwan and continue operating the other 10 to maintain a local capacity utilization rate at 90%, according to Chinese-language newspaper Economic ...
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Philips originally planned to spin off its wholly-owned subsidiary Lumileds and automobile lighting business to make them an independent company by the end of the first half 2015. But on March 31, Philips announced a deal to sell a 80.1% ...
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GaN-on-GaN technology can be used to grow blue-light laser as a source of lighting with luminous efficiency of 220lm/W, said 2014 Nobel laureate in physics Shuji Nakamura in a speech given inTaipei recently. Nakamura, currently a ...
LED chip maker Tyntek has reported gross margin of 21.8% for the first quarter of 2015, the highest quarterly level in the past 10 years. Tyntek posted consolidated revenues of NT$861 million (US$27.3 million), pre-tax profit of NT$99 ...
Tags: LED chip, Tyntek, communication devices
Swedish automaker Scania has secured a contract from Taiwanese bus bodybuilder Gen-Chen to supply 100 additional chassis. Since the early 1990s, Scania and Gen-Chen have been working together and the former has been the chassis ...
In the six months to February 2015, revenue surged 24.2 per cent, while operating profit zoomed 40.2 per cent, both from a year ago periods, at Japanese apparel marketer Fast Retailing. Fast Retailing which owns the Uniqlo brand, said ...
Tags: Fast Retailing, Uniqlo Japan, Apparel
For fiscal second-quarter 2015 (to end-February 2015), LED chip and component maker SemiLEDs Corp of Hsinchu, Taiwan has reported revenue of $4.6m, continuing the rebound from the low of $2.3m in fiscal fourth-quarter 2014 and up 56% on ...
Solar-grade crystalline silicon wafer maker Sino-American Silicon Products (SAS) will have its subsidiary maker Sunrise Global Solar Energy expand annual production capacity for PERC (passivated emitter and rear cell) P-type monocrystalline ...